10/4 PBE Update: Little Devil Teemo, Bewitching Morgana and Tristana, Vamporo Ward, Doom Bots Soon, and much more!

Today's update starts the 6.21 PBE cycle and includes spooky new skins for Morgana, Tristana, and Teemo, new summoner icons, new chroma for Dunkmaster Darius and Headmistress Fiora, a new Vamporo ward skin, info on the upcoming return of the Doom Bots mode, and more!
Continue reading for more information!

Table of Contents

• New Champion Skins
• Bewitching Morgana
• Little Devil Teemo
• Bewitching Tristana
• New Chroma
• Dunkmaster Darius
• Headmistress Fiora
• New Ward Skin
• New Summoner Icons
• Doom Bots of Doom testing soon for RGMQ
• Death Screen Performance Tweaks 
• Balance Changes

New Champion Skins

New Chroma

Headmistress Fiora

Remember that Chroma were recently relaunched with several changes to availability and pricing, including twice a year Chroma for IP sales. Click here for more information.

New Ward Skin

A devilish new Vamporo ward skin has been added - this new ward skin has two different spawn animations that it rotates between randomly when placed!

Vamporo Ward

New Summoner Icons

5 spooky new summoner icons themed around the new spooky skins hit the PBE in today's update!

Doom Bots of Doom testing soon for RGMQ

[NOTE: Lots and lots of DOOM BOTS related files hit the PBE today but it has not yet been enabled!]

Here's L4T3NCY with more info on the upcoming return of Doom Bots of Doom, including several changes such as increasing difficulty, upgraded bots, and a new evil overlord:

"It's been a long time coming.. they've been lurking... waiting... to be summoned... ..here comes the Doom Bots of Doom! 

We'll be enabling them on the PBE soon(tm), and eventually they'll go into the RGM rotation. A LOT has changed from last time though, so I'll get straight to it. 

Game flow: 

• Battle against the Doom Bots of Doom on an extra spooky Summoner's Rift in this survival style game mode.
• Doom Bots will rush your lanes relentlessly. Survive!
• Try to survive for 15 minutes until the Evil Overlord of the Doom Bots is summoned.
• Defeat him to win the game!
• Lose your nexus and be doomed forever... 

Other gameplay notes: 

• Doom bots don't go back to shop or heal, but when they do die they'll be back in lane before you know it.
• The map has been cut in half so we could double down on the doom.
• Enemy towers are invulnerable. Don't bother trying to push.
• In the event you manage to suicide some minions into an enemy tower, you'll receive burst of HP/mana for some sustain.
• Upon breaking certain kill 'quest' thresholds, your team will receive a boost in power. Work together to get kills and power up in time. 

The Doom Bots roster: 

Our bot roster has dramatically increased from last time! We have: 

• Amumu
• Annie
• Blitzcrank
• Brand
• Chogath
• Ezreal
• Fiddlesticks
• Galio
• Heimerdinger
• Leona
• Lulu
• Lux
• Malzahar
• Morgana
• Tristana
• Udyr
• Veigar
• Wukong
• Yasuo
• Yorick
• Ziggs 

Curses: 

Curses are global buffs that effect every Doom Bot (or the map itself). They rotate in randomly every few minutes and give the bots a variety of familiar (but scary) powers: 

• Celestial Expansion
• Tempered Fate
• Giga Blinding Dart
• Brush Fire :)
• Death Defied
• Realm Warp
• Electrified Turrets :)
• Windwall
• Twilight Shroud
• Devilish Duplicates :)
• Aegis Protection
• Hallucination
• Poison Trail
• Blood Scent 

the Doom Bots' Evil Overlord: 

He who shall not be named.. 

Custom difficulty in "The Gauntlet" mode: 

• In "The Gauntlet", we're letting YOU set the difficulty and choose how hard you want the Doom Bots to be when challenging them.
• Set a custom Doom Bots difficult from 1 - 100 at the start of the game to modify your Doom Bots.
• Use the chat command "/votelevel ##" and have 3 or more players vote for the same difficulty level to lock it in. (EG: /votelevel 65)
• If a difficulty is not agreed on and voted for within 90sec, the mode will randomise a difficulty level.
• On completion, your match history will show what level you completed as PROOF of your accomplishment (or demise).
• We're interested to see what the highest level that any players in the WORLD can complete.
• There will be an icon after the event for players that complete some of the highest possible levels compared to anyone else in the world. Get your squad together and see how far you can go. :) 

Known bugs: 

• Mode not yet fully optimised. Might be some particle slow down on lower end machines.
• Summoning ceremony still missing SFX. 

Given the amount of content in Doom Bots, we expect there's probably quite a few bugs still lurking in there. Any help from you PBE peeps is always appreciated to catch those hard to find bugs. Thanks as always everyone. 

Now go get doomed. :) 

-- L4T3NCY"

Through the in-game strings it appears DEVIL TEEMO will be the Doom Bots new evil overlord.

•  Text countdown timer - ex:"10 minutes before HE arrives..." and "1 minute left! Your end is nigh!"
• "The Teemoing has begun!"
•  "Destroy Devil Teemo to stop The Teemoing!"
• Little Devil (Teemo): What?! My servants haven't destroyed you yet?"

Amumu:

 Doom of the Sad Mummy - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Amumu also:  

• Shares his Despair with nearby minions
•  Has a much larger Curse of the Sad Mummy
•  Is still quite sad

Annie:

Doom of the Dark Child - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Annie also:

• Automatically Disintegrates nearby minions
• Incinerates units in a circle around her
• Summons Tibbers when she dies, who will be quite angry
• Likes her teddy bear

Blitzcrank:

Doom of the Great Steam Golem - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Blitzcrank also:

• Casts triple Rocket Grab
• Constantly goes into Overdrive
• Has a much larger radius on Static Field's active
• Has a heart...?

Brand:

Doom of the Burning Vengeance - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Brand also:

• Creates multiple Pillars of Flame around targets
• Is on fire
• Looks mean 

Cho'Gath:

Doom of the Terror of the Void - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Cho'gath also:

• Passively gains Feast stacks
• Creates multiple Ruptures based on his size
• Knocks back units hit by Feral Scream
• Is often hungry

Ezreal:

Doom of the Prodigal Explorer - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Ezreal also:

• Shoots multiple Mystic Shots when cast
• Shoots multiple Essence Fluxes when cast
• Shoots a plethora of Trueshot Barrages when cast
• Does not need a map

Fiddlesticks:

Doom of the Harbinger (of Doom) - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Fiddlesticks also:

• Drains HP from all nearby enemies when cast
• Periodically spawns spectral clones that cast Crowstorm
• Is ironically bad at scaring crows

Galio:

Doom of the Sentinel's Sorrow - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Galio also:

• Casts Resolute Smite in a circle around him
• Creates multiple Righteous Gusts in a line
• Periodically spawns Taunt zones near him
• Flies, sort of 

Heimerdinger:

Doom of the Revered Inventor - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Heimerdinger also:

• Passively spawns H-28G Evolution Turrets near him
• Causes H-28G Evolution Turrets to shoot in multiple directions
• Changes Hextech Micro-Rockets to return along their trajectories
• Modifies CH-2 Electron Storm Grenades to fragment on detonation
• Is smarter than you are

Leona:

Doom of the Radiant Dawn - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Leona also:

• Shields nearby minions with Eclipse when cast
• Passively generates Eclipses near her
• Calls down massive Solar Flares
• Praises the sun 

Lulu:

Doom of the Fae Sorceress - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Lulu also:

• Places up to five additional Pix, Faerie Companions on nearby allies
• Causes all nearby Pixes to randomly cast Whimsy when she does
• Makes all nearby allied champions grow when Wild Growth is cast
• Knows what colors taste like

Lux:

Doom of the Lady of Luminosity - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Lux also:

• Creates starbursts of Light Bindings
• Causes Lucent Singularity to generate Light Bindings
• Fires multiple Final Sparks in a circle around her
• Really likes laughing

Malzahar:

Doom of the Prophet of the Void - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Malzahar also:

• Constantly opens portals to the Void
• Passively summons Void creatures into lane
• Is originally from Shurima

Morgana:

Doom of the Fallen Angel - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Morgana also:

• Creates additional Dark Bindings when cast
• Spawns multiple Tormented Soil areas around her
• Automatically Flash + Stasis when Soul Shackles is cast
• Struggles with baking

Tristana:

Doom of the Yordle Gunner - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Tristana also:

• Simultaneously attacks two targets
• Passively adds Explosive Charges to minions hit
• Knocks back enemies when she lands a Rocket Jump
• Has greatly increased knockback radius on Buster Shot
• Trains dragons in her spare time

Udyr:

Doom of the Spirit Walker - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Udyr also:

• Periodically marks jungle camps as claimed
• Summons unkilled monsters from claimed camps into lane after a delay
• Guards spirits or whatever

Veigar:

Doom of the Tiny Master of Evil - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Veigar also:

• Periodically calls down Dark Matter around him
• Has increased range and no hit limit on Baleful Strike
• Is really evil

Wukong:

Doom of the Monkey King - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Wukong also:

• Creates Decoys that knockback nearby enemies
• Spawns Decoys on units hit by Nimbus Strike
• Creates multiple spinning clones when Cyclone is cast
• Will be the best 

Yasuo:

Doom of the Unforgiven - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Yasuo also:

• Creates several whirlwinds whenever Resolve expires
• Creates a whirlwind when projectiles are blocked by Wind Wall
• Creates clones that use Last Breath when faraway enemies are Airborne
• Is sometimes a robot and sometimes a cowboy but never a robot cowboy

Yorick

Doom of the Shepherd of Souls -In addition to bonus stats, Doom Yorick also:

• Constantly raises hordes of Mist Walkers to fight alongside him
• Plays guitar
• Has a last name

Ziggs:

Doom of the Hexplosives Expert - In addition to bonus stats, Doom Ziggs also:

• Leaves behind mines on Bouncing Bombs
• Creates Mini Inferno Bombs around Mega Inferno Bomb's blast zone
• Is not the star this time

And here are the various "curses" or global buffs that bots rotate:

• Curse: Akali (Twilight Shroud) - This Bot creates a smoke cloud in an area for a short time. While within the cloud, this Bot's allies are stealthed. They will briefly appear when they attack or use an ability.

[NOTE: We'll have more screenshots and coverage once it is enabled on the PBE!]

Death Screen Performance Tweaks 

Here's Riot JxE with more info on changes to post- Death Screen performance currently on PBE:

"Hey all! 

I’m Riot JxE from the Sustainability Initiative. Our goal is to make it easier for developers to make League of Legends awesome for years to come. 

We recently spun up a team that’s focused on refactoring our rendering code. This team is laying down the foundation that we can build on to improve the visuals of League of Legends. These won’t be the highest quality pixels anybody's seen, but they’ll look good and run on your machine. 

We’ve redone some of the death screen visuals which will be hitting the PBE today. This was an exercise to get to know our code inside and out that led to some cool side benefits. Prior to our changes, every object in the game had a shader attached to them that would tell the object to turn gray when someone died. This was done a long time ago to make characters render at 20% saturation while the background was completely desaturated. With our new changes, there’s a single post-process pass that sets everything to 20% saturation. 

Once we’re confident in this change we’ll remove the old code which results in faster load times when joining a game and memory savings. You will immediately get higher fps while viewing the death screen (VFX now render 65% faster and animated objects render 33% faster). 

BEFORE:

AFTER:

We know some of you will encounter this screen more than others. While you’re reflecting on the terrible decisions you’ve made, please take some time to let us know if you notice any issues with our changes! 

Thanks! 

Riot JxE"